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War Threat Overrated?

Have the war clouds over For- mosa Strait been painted in darker hues than is justified by what has actually taken place there during the past two weeks? This is the question raised by the chief Far Eastern cor- respondent of the Christian Science Monitorl Gordon Walker, who says that while the situation undoubtedly is tense, no evidence appears, either at Hong Kong, from where he writes, or in Formosa itself, to support the

View that the Chinese Communists ..

intend to launch any type of mili- tary, operation that .WOuld provoke United States retaliation. He regards it as signiﬁcant that they have not tried to bomb Nationalist naval and

air bases on Formosa — logical pre-‘

lude to any amphibious attack on the offshore islands. And converse-l ly, the United States has restrained the Nationalists from bombing main- land bases--a restriction which it

is felt would not be imposed if

American observers thought an in- vasion were imminent. I. “There evidence that ’ the Nationalist Defense Ministry has tended to exaggerate the situation,” writes Mr. Walker. “This is particu- larly true in respect to. the extent of the shellings of Quemoy Island. While the lshellings obviously have been severe, United States military observers on the island have told visiting foreign correspondents that they’Nationalists’ figures were too high. But there has’been no'change in the general consensus here that Peiping does not ‘ wish to risk war but is merely rattling its saber as a means of assuring ” that the For- mosan question will be included in any future \top-level international conference.” . I _

V. The big question islwhether or not Washington .WOuld intervene if the Communists should Amount an amphibious or air-borne attack on the offshore islands. The United States has studiously refused to in- clude these islands in its mutual de- fense pact with Formosa; and many military observers feel: that if the Communists really wanted to take .them, nothing short, of an all-out war in Asia could block the move.

The Nationalists, of cOurse, are seriously concerned over the possi- bility that the Communists may try to seize Quemoy or Matsu—or both. But they are equally concerned with the windfall of militéry tension which

permits them to press Washington ,

harder for added military supplies

_’ and particularly the extension of a United States military guarantee to

include the controversial offshore islands. They have openly stated on many occasions that they dread any extended period of “coexistence.”

They welcome anything which re-.

focuSes attention on the» Formosa Strait situation. It 'must surely be evident at Washington, however,

that the role of the Nationalist, forces is being relegated more and

more to defense of Formosa itself. The offshore islands are of value primarily in offensive operations;

and there are, few now who will

argue that the Nationalists have any hope of returning to the mainland except as prisoners of war.

lncllrect Aggressnon In the UN. General Assembly de- bate on the Middle East, much was said about the advisability of “moni— radio broadcasts beamed across national frontiers for the pur-

pose ‘of what was loosely called “in-‘-

direct aggression.” In his speech President Eisenhower acknowledged that perhaps the United States had gone a bit trio far in this type of wordy warfare. He‘intimated that if other sources of radio propaganda—— notably the Soviet Union and the Uni- ted Arab Republic—Would followvsuit, the United States would be willing to

- limit the scope of \its Voice of Am- ‘ erica, which tries to get its messages

across the Iron Curtain, despite So- viet jamming of the broadcasts. Well, this phase of good intentions voiced in the General Assembly does not appear to have had much effect on the U. S. Congress. In the last hours of its recent session it voted an extra“ $10 million for new equipment

which, it is hoped, will make soviet jamming impractical. No doubt, the Soviet Union will respond by spend- ing more money on jamming equip- ment and its broadcasting stations. The United Arab Republic can be ex- pected to do the same. Hence, “in- direct aggression” will be more fash- ionable than ever.

Anyway, the delegates had a merry time blaming one anotherfor trying to corrupt the air waves; so, no doubt, their governments back home are entitled to whatever fun they can get in abusing one another over the air still further.

A Vicious Deed When a C.C.F. member of Parlia- ment asked the Government whether it intended to intervene on behalf of a Negro who is under sentence of

. death in Alabama for stealing $1.95

.from a white Woman, Speaker Mich- ener ruled that the proposal was out- side the “competence” of the Can- adian Government.- No doubt it is. The proposal is appealing, however; and surely there must be- some way for the Government to let Alabama au- thorities know that such an act of utter savagery is abhorrent to Can- adians.

The Government did not hesitate to protest the execution of the former

, Communist Premier of Hungary, Imre, , Nagy—a deed which,

though repre— hensible, was not nearly as vicious as

that contemplated in Alabama.

When this news first came over the wires, it is safe to say that most Canadians and civilized people every- where felt that it could not possibly be true. But apparently it is; and at time of writing there is no indication that the Governor of the State has any intention of quashing the sen- tence. But, even if he does, the sen- tence itself, with the terrifying racial

discrimination which it representsgis

enough to warrant! indignation the world over. ‘ ' ‘ ‘

EDITORIAL Nous

Provincial electoral , districts are already choosing their candidates for the next election which may be two years off. Does this reflect a growing-5 belief that the Government might de- cide to. take a chance much earlier, perhaps this fall?

* t t 1 Premier de Gaulle is not finding his task as light as the enthusiasm with which the people accepted his interventiOn in France's political af- fairs seemed to indicate. He may have to resort to totalitarian methods, at-

. ter all—the very thing Which his cri-

tics said he had in mind at the be-

. ginning-

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B.C’s Minister of Education says that his province’s plan for providing

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. text books to students “is head and

shoulders above anything else in Can- ada.” Does anyone feel like challeng-

ing the claim? B.C. students in

grades 7 and 9 pay a rental of $4.50 a

"year for books valued from $16 to

$30. Other grades pay corresponding rates. I t . I

The United States has sued the Soviet Union for over a million dol- lars’ damages in connection with the shooting down of an American plane by Soviet fighters in the fall of 1954. The case will be heard by the Inter- national Court of Justice 'whose judgements are binding only when the parties to the litigation accept them. Offhand, we would say that the Uni- ted States will be lucky if it gets one dollar.

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The Rt. Rev. Robert Brown, Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas,. was one of a Lambeth Conference com- mittee which’brought in a report de- ploring racial discrimination. The committee’s chairman was Arch-

' bishop J oost de Blank of South Afri-

ca. Both prelates have had first hand experience with racial discrimina- tion. Bishop Brown arrived back in his See city of Little Rock just in time to be entangled in a renewal of con- troversy over the issue.

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The material gathered in the Canadian census of 1956 is gradually being broken down into a series of analytical reports which provide valuable studies of this country’s growth patterns. One of the most in- teresting findings is that emigration to the United, States has "shown a marked 'decrease in the post-war period. During the 10 years from 1921 'to 1931, emigration to the United States amounted to almost 1,000,000 Canadians—925,000, to be exact. During the 15 years from 1941 to 1956, it amounted to only 335,000. In the 10 years from 1946 to 1956, the total was 300,000. Of this number, only 239,000 were Canadian-born. '

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OTTAWA REPORT

Hospital Plan Problems

By Patrick

Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Doctors in the House ofCom- mons are showing increasing un- easiness about the details of ad- ministration of the national hos- pital insurance plan. This column reported last month that M.Ps, and especially doctor-MP5, of the Conservative and Liberal parties,

had deplored the fact that we have never had a standing corn- milbtee of the House of Commons on Health and Welfare, which might have aimed and remedied

Welland’s Dr. ‘W.H. McMillan and East Stimcoe’s Dr. P.B. Ry- nard are ammg those actively concerned. Last week two other

tributions parliamentary dis- of‘ subject; Dr. ' 0. Islaliid, and Dr. H.M. Homer hpm_»sAlberta. " -

The expected difficulties will centre around a’shortalge of hos- pital beds. Nobody ‘can estimate exactly how" many hospital beds will be needed across Canada un- til the hospital insurance plan is actually in operation in every Province. This is because nobody has any means of coimt-iug the number of Canadians who need medical treatment, but who hith- erto have been unable to afford it or unable to get into hospital.

Many people who might be con- sidered well qualified to guess think that we may be short about 4,000 beds in all Canada. The shortage \may be least in B.C. and Saskatchewan, but most se- vere in Outario,;it is thought. ~

Murdo Martin, the MP. From Timmins, quoted some figures in this connection in the Commons. He of course is not a doctor; he is a fireman, or na- ther he was a fireman until the Timmins Council decided that a firemen’s post is tthe Timmins conflagration and m at the Ott- tawa contrabulation.’ Mr. Martin pointed out that official figures show that, of every one hundred hospital beds in Canada, thinly- nine are occupied by mental pa- tients and eight by tuberculosis sufferers. His point was that, since these two classes are ill- ness are not covered by the pro- posed hospital plan, no less than 47 per cent of our hospitalized

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus-

sion by correspondents of question of

interest. The Guardian does not nescs-

sarily endorse the opinion of corms pondents.

JUST ONE COMPLAINT-

Sir,— I have just returned from a three weeks vacation on the “Island.” I make it a must for my vacation each year. In fact this‘year I have purchased a small lot with the future hope of building a summer cottage. It certainly is a great place to put one‘s mind at case after a trying year in the city.

I have but one complaint to make, and that is the deplorable dust on the local roads. It seems that your main highways are in excellent condition and that the Highway Department is spending enough money on them.

Every time I looked out of the window after a car had passed you could not see a thing for se- veral minutes.

Being a Selectman in the Town of Holliston, Mass, and a high- way surveyor I would like to sug- gest that some of the money which is spent on running main- tainers over good gravel roads be used to purchase and spread some calcium chloride to help out the dusty conditions.

It seems like a false economy to waste money on scraping and shaping and then have it all was-t- ed. Calcium chloride is cheap and will last a good while and certain- ly stabilize the roads so the ma- chines will not have to cultivate the dust as they are now doing.

I am Sir, etc. LORING P. LOVEWELL

‘ patient, but would have to be paid

Nicholson

sufferers will derive no

from the plan. But his figures al-

so show that, if our doctors could reduce the shockingly high incid- ence of mental illness, beds could be made available for other persons in ample number.

The fear emessed by Dr. Ry- nard and others here is that an administrative blunder has been made in excluding the free pro- vision of certain drugs and ser- vices to out-patients, when those same drugs and services will be supplied free to inpatients. This means that doctors? will inevit- ably be under pressure from pa:- tienlbs for whom they prescribe these, to be ordered into hospi- tal so that they may receive them free. This is expected to apply es- pecially to, certain diagnostic ser- vices, whiloh would thus be sup- plied free of charge to an in—

for by an out-patient.

Another point which has ser- iwsly wot-oiled sevenal doctor ‘- M.Ps concerns existing private medical insurance plans. Since standard ward accommodation will now be covered under the national plan, provate plans could do no more than cover the ad- ditional cost incurred by those patients who wish to have pini- vate or semi-private accommod-,

tal-lo. these provate plans are now by law only permitted to pay out the actual difference in cost be- tween what the patient receives and what the government sup-v plies. In' other words as one in- suranlce company official eiqires- sed it to me, these plans can now be only on a “roirnbursement ba- sis”. But consider a person who has (paid pretnium,‘ and then when rushed to hospital has to. use ward accmmnodation because all the private accommodation- is already occupied. At least that person would expect to. receive the ﬁnancial compensation, for which he had paid premiums, ev- en if circumstances preven him enjoyed the better more com- fortable service. But under the law, such person can receive no- thing from his private insurance plan; so he would have paid pre- miums to no avail; or as one M.P. expressed it privately, “un- der false pretences”. This point was explained ,in detail to his in- terested co agues by Dr. Ry‘nard in private ‘talks, and Dr. 0.1-1. Phillips latter discussed it in the "House. ‘ ' " ‘ These and similar problems suggest strongly that a medical doctor should be' associated with the parliamentary work of our Department of Health; if not as Minister, then at least as Par- liamentary Assistant to the Min- ister. Busy though he is already, this seems to be a task which would be admira ly performed by and could do edly be award- ed to, ’5 Dr. Rynard, who

lat-ion. . In at least one province, 0n-

is one of the outstanding back- benchers on the Government side.

Friction palms created by Wes— tern policy — or lack of it—in the Near East have already pro- duced two major crisis in that part of the world. More are t come. It is the same in the Far East, where Western policy, not-. aby UnitedyStalt-es policy, has created what is probably the worst frictionpoint of all. This ‘is the so-called Nationalist Gov— ernment of China, which squats on the island of Formosa, con- fronting and challenging the firmly - established Communist Government on the nearby main— land.

The Nationalist ‘Government’f is wholly synthetic. It consists of a defeated army which was driv- en fmom the mainland nine years ago. Protected by the United States Navy and ﬁnanced by la- vish hand - cuts (a billion dollars during those nine years) from the United States Government, the leader of this army, Gencnal-‘ issimo Chiang Kaishek, not only proclaims his regime to be the true and only China, but throat- ens to reconque'r the mainland. INVITES VIOLENCE .

Such a situation invites and in- cites violence of the kind which took place over the weekend, when mainland Communist forc‘ es bombarded the islands of Que‘ moy and Little Quemoy, held by the Nationalists. The Communist Government of China can argue

AUTUMN DREAM Give mettle days when crickets cheep; The lazy days, of early fall. To sit where sunshine warms my back ' And fell the wonder of

it all.

Summertime has passed gone;

Soon autumn colors will prevail;

The richest shades of red and gold

Will glorify each hill and dale.

and

Then, let me wander through the woods

And sit down by a chattering stream;

In scarlet dress, with shoes to match

I’ll share an autumn dream.

V—VCECIL B. SMITH

Holliston, Mass, U.S.A.

Stewiacke, N .5.

The Folly Of Formosa

Globe And Mail. Toronto /

that Clhilang’s forces constitute a threat to its security. It can at- tack Quemoy, or Maltsu‘, or even Formosa itself, on the pretent of preventing Chiang and his men from launching an invasion alg- ainst the mainland.

The Western Powers make mat- ters Worse -- very much worse —- by supporting Chiang’s ridicu- lous and dangerous pretensions. The U.S., Canada and others ac- cept his rump regime as the true and only Government of China. Britain and others, while recog- nizing the Communist lGoverrb ment of Peking, still admit —- in United Nations matters, for ex- ample — the right of the For- mosa Government to speak for the Chinese people. They thus maintain and exacerbate the ten- sion between the two regimes That tension could lead to a war directly involving China, the Uni- ted States and Russia. Things cannot be 1th any longer in this perilous state.

FIRMLY ESTABLISHED

The Communist Government is now firmly established in control of all China. Its rule is universal- ly acknowledged, by friends and enemies alike, to be the strong- est the country has known for centuries, and it shows every Sign of continuing for many years to come. A

The is no sympathy for Chiang within China. Why should there be? His 22 years of power weme marked by wholesale corruption, uncontrolled inﬂation, incessant civil wars, foreign invasion and occupation, by an almost unbrok- en course of national disaster and humiliation. The Chinese do not want to see him — still less, help him — return.

So he and his make - believe Government are withering in For- mosa. His troops are growing old, and there are no replace,- ments for them — except to the extent that Formosan youths, of dubious loyalty, can be drafted into his army. Chiang himself is past 70. When he dies, who will take over from him? And to what purpose?

EVADING REALITY

Western policies, in this case, are utterly irrational. To refuse to recognize the real, effective Chinese Government is b ad enough. But to pretend, in all s:)— lemnily. that a rump regime. de- caying on a small island, is the true Government of China and has the sole right to speak for that mighty nation is slicer folly.

Another Aicl In Cancer Wor

man N. Bundesen. M. D. ByWII-II‘ILE medical science has made great strides in the ﬁght against many diseases, even cer- tain types of cancer, lung cancer continues to be a major problem. Each decade lung cancer rat- es double. An estimated 127,000 Americans will die of this disease this About 80 per cent of them will be men.

NEW DEVELOPMENT

Now, scientists at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University have come up with a development which might eventume prove a big aid in our battle against lung cancer.

For a long time researchers have been seeking a sputum test for this type of disease.

The Columbia scientists have developed an aerosol or spray which in preliminary tests has enabled patients. to .cough up sputum for microscopic examin- atlon.

CANCERS DETECTED

Lung cancers already have been detected by this method. However, we don’t know at this time just how dependable the technique will be.

If it does prove valuable, it would give us a tremendous wea- pon against lung cancer.

At present, we save fewer than 10 per cent of lung cancer vic- tims. That means more than 90 per cent of them die. ' , SYMPTOMS USUALLY IGNORE Biggest reason for this admit- tedly poor record is that the dis- ease usually isn’t discovered un- til it is too advanced to be‘ cured

' by surgery. And the reason for

this is simply that symptoms of lung cancer ususally are slight, and therefore ignored, until the disease has rag-ed beyond controll The aerosol developed at 00- lumbila makes a person cough up sputum containing loose cells from the of the breathing tubes. ‘ , EARLY DISCOVERY

Ill! examination of uch cells can consistently determme wheth- ‘er patiests have caluoer of the lung, it’s obvious that we can de- tect the disease easily and quick- ly long before it menaces their lives. . x .

We must wait further testing before the method can be used to any great extent.

Cancer, however, won’t wath

portalnt than evcrto have a chest

promptly. QUESTION .AND ANSWER

contact with it?’

poison from it is y.

MAXIMS

There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which .has no satisfac-

tory dictionary name but has

different times in dillferent coun- tries. Our American name for it is “guts”.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE runs AGO

(August 29, 1933)

A resolution requesting the eli- mination of charges for automo- biles crossmg on the car ferry, and another for joint Maritime action in pressing claims at Ot- tawa, weme unanimously adopted at the annual conVention of the Associated Boards of Trade which met at Summerside yesterday. The president, Mr'. S.A. MacDon- ald presided. ‘

Eleven English school boys, un- der the leadership of‘ Mr. John Guise, director of the School Em- pire Tour, arriyed in the pro- vince last evening. “ is tour”, Mr. Guise said, “is a valuable experience for the boys who have been given the opportunity of see- ing the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland and to see Quebec on their way to Montreal for the trip home.

TEN YARS ‘AGO

(August 29, 1948)

A revvoluntionary method in mo- dern long distance telephone com- munication between Charlottetown and New Glasgow, N.S, is on the venge of completion through the efforts of the Island Telephone Company in cooperation with the Maritime Telephone and Tele- graph Company.- This new mi- cro-wave link, using a radio re- ceiving and transmitting system, will be the first oft its kind in the world to be used for commercial purposes.

Two aerial milk runs are now operating out of Summerside. For the past three years Summer- side has been supplying milk to Harmon Field in Newfoundland, and now arrangements for a sim- ilar service to Goose Bay, Lab- radbr, have been completed. Only one trip a week will be made from Goose Bay, but they will take 350 gallons on the trip.

POLICE FIGHT RUSTLERS

MEXICO CITY (AP) —- A gun battle flared near Acapulco Tues- d'ay as the forces of law and or- der closed in on a band of cat- tle hustlers. Four soldiers were killed in the fight, the delfence ministry reported. The rustlers escaped, but search for them will be intensified.

Soviet Union. we hailed some ex- iled, aging Grand Duke as Czar of Russia.

l In politics, as in everything else nothing but disaster can come

So, meanwhile, it’s more im- ‘

‘x-ray at least once a year. We can cure many cancers, nemcm- ber, if we detect them early enough and treatment

L. S. T.: Is it possible for a .person not to have reactions from poison ivy even after having had

' Am: Some persons c a n come in contact with ivy with per- . feet safety, while others are very likely to react even when the canted to them

NOTES BY THE wl,

Planned adolescence is said to be essential to our economic sys- tem, The unplanned kind, noted in i the shaving mirror every morn- ing is something else again. -- Hamilton Spectator \

Mac’s wit. ya.“ ‘ . running for the .,., remoustra-ted g him, “it’s no. want, It’s a doc was Mac’s rem. ford to deal wir, Ottawa, Y

It isn’t flag to make. .‘

Perhaps there’s nothing more discouraging than trying to fig.1 ure out what happened to the re- mainder of the $10 bill you had

busted yesterday.——Kitchener-Wa- may of the m terloo Record ' 1'37. and flange: such teamg, An sonlmrg area An English firm, Numismators ed to death ' ‘. lited of Newcastle-on-Tyne has The younger)“. invented two machines which ap- relatively placid; pear to be the answers to the aged; WM "9, bankers prayers. One device han- creasingly dies mixed batches of coins of-«all must ever be sorts and simultaneously sorts; they can go counts and packages them. A angry mm is second machine takes only pen- Belleville n, uies sixpences and shillings. — a . Brantfond Expositor we believe . many of the" - v A. South. American. couple on; to New

brought a pet hen along with them when visiting Canada. An American family entering Canada have as a passenger in their sta- tion wagon a nanny goat. The hen was not allowed to enter the country. The goat was. May- be the,hen hadn't learned how effective “But” is in an argument with a- customs official.—-Fort William Times-Journal

en mamyhmany“ example, wend‘ghl cold.” The Oxford” ’ ciﬁcally says that synonym for: “"

it is correct. But this ‘ has been droppedqu 3%“: arm 1! ' _“ expresswns,

The human mind is a, mild! be no reason for“ M

darker jungle than deepest Al‘- rica. Everyone should strive to develop thicker skins. stronger nerves and more rational think- ing but that advice is easier to give than to follow. Nevertheless they should be a goal. The en- ormous amounts of tranquilizer- pills and alcohol being consumed today are certainly not the ana- wer.—Edmonton Jouural

Amid all the turmoil 'of the Middle East the country with the greatest life-and-deatlh sta: e to developments hasthe lea to say. It is the little state of ls- rael, the cull-x of emotiouslim- rest and the main target of Arab ' hatred. Israel was born in de- fiance of Arab 'wlshes, and twice has administered humiliaé ting defeatsto Arab anus—V

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The Age Old Story E

, See then that ye walk circum- spectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the [ days are evil.

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